"Yahoo has made good on its threat of last month and filed a patent infringement suit against Facebook." Yup, another patent battle. Great for innovation, this. Destroying the technology industry, one patent at a time.

My post should probably end with some suggestion on what you could do if you don't like these stories, but I guess I'll break the rule and start this day peacefully .

No, those of us that are constantly bitching about it is the reason why he said he was going to dial the patent stories back But I say if you're going to pick and choose which ones to post (which he should), why not concentrate on the ones where something/somebody actually gets shut down?

The more you post about 'company x sues company y over some overly broad patents', the less people like me are going to pay attention when something REALLY bad happens as a result of patents and you decide to tell us about it.